Professors Yllo and Torres received a Wenner-Gren Foundation Workshop Grant to host a workshop on global perspectives on sexual violence in marriage at Wheaton College. The workshop promotes the development of anthropological research and theory on kinship, gender, violence and social suffering. In the Spring 2013, the workshop will bring together anthropologists with scholars who [...]

Professor Sarah Tobin published "Jordan's Arab Spring: The Middle Class and the Anti-Revolution" in Middle East Policy Spring 2012, Volume XIX, Number 1. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and recent interviews, Professor Tobin's paper examines the role of the emergent middle class in Amman in shaping national politics, especially anti-revolutionary positions during the Arab Spring.

The New England Council of Latin American Studies awarded its 2011 Best Article Prize to an article co-authored by Professor Torres. Precursors to Femicide: Guatemalan Women in a Vortex of Violence by David Carey, Jr and M. Gabriela Torres published in the Latin American Research Review, vol. 45, no. 3 was recognized by the committee [...]